Micronesia: Palau is littered with WWII munitions 80 years after the war

Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a child her grandmother warning the land was poisoned Read More …

Israel: Police sappers remove rocket remnants from Kfar Saba school

Police sappers (bomb disposal personnel) removed the remnants of an old rocket discovered at a school in Kfar Saba, the police announced Tuesday. An initial investigation revealed that while students were playing in the school’s sandlot, they began digging and Read More …

Iceland joins in funding Danish model for Ukrainian weapons production

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has expressed gratitude to Iceland for its recent contribution to producing Ukrainian weapons under the Danish model. Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday, 7 January. During their meeting, Sybiha thanked Read More …

Israel: IDF’s Yahalom Unit dismantles Hamas underground weapons facility in Gaza

IDF soldiers from the Yahalom Unit uncovered and dismantled an underground tunnel system that housed Hamas weapons manufacturing infrastructure in central Gaza, the military reported Saturday evening. According to the military’s statement, the underground structure contained multiple tunnels that were Read More …

Vietnam: Over-220kg bomb with intact fuse safely handled in Quang Binh

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) in Vietnam confirmed on January 4 that its experts and mobile bomb disposal team have safely handled and moved a bomb weighing over 220 kg to a secure storage area in the central province of Read More …

UK: East Anglia’s hidden and explosive dangers

East Anglia offers a unique opportunity for offshore energy generation, as well as other large scale infrastructure projects, such as the Lower Thames crossing. There has been many a failed dream too, from Maplin Sands, to London Britannia aka ‘Boris Read More …

Ukraine: Military sappers clear almost 253K ha of lands of mines, UXOs in 2024

Over the year, the demining units of the Defense Ministry cleared almost 253,000 hectares of territories from mines and unexploded munitions and neutralized 137,821 explosive objects. This was reported by the MoD press service, Ukrinform saw. “In 2024, the demining Read More …

Cambodia: CMAA eyes demining 200 sq km of land in 2025

The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) plans to clear more than 200 square kilometres of land with mines and unexploded ordnance in 2025. This will make land safe for people to live on and cultivate. First Vice-President Read More …

Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts neutralize unexploded Russian Kh-59 missile in Kharkiv

Explosive technicians from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service have neutralized a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that fell on a private household in Kharkiv. The State Emergency Service announced this on Facebook. Bomb disposal experts promptly seized the missile and destroyed it Read More …

Vietnam to raise awareness on mine accident prevention and support of victims

By the end of last year, about 5.6 million hectares in Việt Nam were still littered with bombs, mines and explosives left from the resistance wars, equivalent to 17.7 per cent of the country’s land area. The information was disclosed Read More …